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ARIN Public Policy Meeting, Day 2 Notes - 19 October, 1999

For the morning session of day 2, the IP Allocation Policies Working Group
and the Database Implementation Working Group (DBWG) met to discuss issues
within their respective areas. Minutes of these meetings are posted on
ARIN's web site. In the afternoon, the plenary session reconvened for
the two working groups to report on their meetings, and for other registries
to make presentations.

RIPE NCC

First,
John Crain explained the difference between RIPE and RIPE NCC. RIPE provides
coordination services for the European community and does so through working
groups, mailing lists, and hosting meetings.

RIPE
NCC provides registry functions such as allocating IPv4 and IPv6 addresses,
and providing reverse delegation, database maintenance, and educational
services. RIPE NCC is a nonprofit with 1,500 members and a staff of 57
professionals from 22 nationalities. John went on to provide statistics
relating to their IP operations. The RIPE community has selected as their
representatives to the ASO Address Council Sabine Jaume from France, Hans
Petter Holen from Norway, and Wilfried Woeber from Austria. For further
details about this RIR, visit the RIPE NCC presentation.

APNIC

Next,
Paul Wilson provided a summary of APNIC's IP-related statistics. Paul
began with an overview of APNIC's operations, explaining its interaction
with confederations and National Internet Registries, as well as plans
for hosting an iDNS server. APNIC has 354 members from 34 countries, and
a staff of 13. To date, it has received seven IPv6 requests and has allocated
five blocks. As the secretariat for the ASO during its first year of operation,
APNIC is hosting the ASO web site.

LACNIC

German
Valdez, a board member of the proposed LACNIC (www.lacnic.org), reported
on the progress of the new registry's formation. He commented on the presentation
of a creation agreement at the Santiago meeting, that an interim board
for the registry has been established, and the organization has gained
the support of the ISPs, local IRs, telecom organizations, and carriers
in its designated region, which is Latin America and the Caribbean. The
location of its office will be decided at its general assembly which is
expected to be held in early to mid-2000. Organizations representing the
initial board will fund the registry during its start-up phase. Its operations
will be divided by Brazil NIC and Mexican NIC, but this is not yet clearly
defined. ARIN will be providing expertise and training support during
early stages of its operations.

AFRINIC

After
being introduced, Mouhamet Diop, from Senegal, provided an update of the
formation of the proposed AFRINIC (www.afrinic.org). At it's first meeting
held in December 1998, a document for its formation was accepted. Mouhamet
explained that the registry's main objective is to become a neutral, transparent
nonprofit organization assisting the African community, providing educational
support, and developing public policies. The registry has presented a
document to ICANN for recognition, elected a provisional board consisting
of two each from: North, East, West, Central, Southern Africa, and the
Indian Ocean, and is organizing its first general assembly. However, the
country and location of the operation is yet to be selected. The RIRs
were requested to form a technical committee to help determine where AFRINIC
should be located and to help operationally during its startup phase.

IP Allocations
Policies Working Group

The
chair of this WG, Alec Peterson, described the group's discussions on
revising RFC 2050. One change involved revising end-user utilization guides
from the current 25% immediate utilization and 50% utilization within
1 year, to 50% immediate utilization and 80% utilization within 1 year.
They also discussed reclaiming address space and how or if it should be
reclaimed. Under consideration was a lowering of the multi-homed requirement
to /24 so that small entities that don't qualify to receive IPs from ARIN
under the current guidelines can receive address space. How this would
affect the routing tables would have to be addressed. In conclusion, Cathy
Wittbrodt will look at the /20s that have been allocated to check whether
the routing tables are affected because of ARIN's lowering of the allocation
size from /19 to /20 this past February.

Database Implementation
Working Group

Jeremy
Porter, DBWG chair, explained that several issues have been under discussion,
the first of which involves adding security and authentication to SWIP
processing. Other topics included: mirroring top-level RWHOIS, integrating
SWIP and RWHOIS so that in-addrs can be bundled with RWHOIS, developing
a SWIP parser for members to verify data before submitting templates,
changing SWIP parser from running once a day to running when an email
is received, addressing the reuse of handles when a network is deleted,
and expanding SWIP POC information. A show of hands revealed that a majority
of the attendees use SWIP compared to RWHOIS. Minutes of their meeting
will be posted to the members list. Regarding RWHOIS, Mark Kosters, who
is developing RWHOIS at InterNIC, is putting patches on the initial version,
and his staff will continue to develop it further. The question remains
as to what should be done with version 2.

Future PPM Meetings

Comments
about the 2-days' events were very favorable - the meetings provided much
needed education, and network access and wireless connections were pluses.
Allowing for more time to hold working group discussions was one suggestion
offered, while everyone resoundingly voiced a desire to have more fruit
and ice cream! The majority of attendees expressed a desire to see the
other RIRs continue to participate in each meeting.

In
closing comments, possible hosts for the next public policy meeting in
April 2000 were suggested. One final comment suggested that number exhaustion
should be monitored, whereupon ARIN agreed to monitor IPs. The meeting
was adjourned with an invitation from Kim for all those interested to
join in the reception planned for the evening and a special thanks to Qwest for hosting these activities.